MEDIA ADVISORY January 26, 2020 No Pride in Policing calls for a U-turn back to community at Pride Toronto The No Pride in Policing Coalition (NPPC) is calling on Pride Toronto to make a sharp
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Critical Reflections on Brenda Cossman’s “Memorializing LGBTQ2 Histories: Thoughts on Moving Beside Our Debates”
Some Critical Reflections on Brenda Cossman’s “Memorializing LGBTQ2 Histories: Thoughts on Moving Beside Our Debates” By Gary Kinsman Introduction I was surprised to see that Brenda Cossman’s “Memorializing LGBTQ2 Histories”[1] was included in the briefing
Read moreTom Hooper’s Complaint to the Pride Toronto Board regarding $250,000 from Canadian Heritage for celebrating the 69 reform as the ‘decriminalization’ of homosexuality.
Also see https://anti-69.ca/funding/ for much of the appended material referred to in this letter of complaint. Click here to download a PDF of the complaint. November 28, 2019 Dear members of the Board of Pride
Read more2020 –Decolonial Interventions to Queer Necropolitics and Homonationalisms: Gül Çaliskan and Kayla Preston, with Gary Kinsman, Ghaida Moussa, and Amar Wahab
“Decolonial Interventions to Queer Necropolitics and Homonationalisms” Gül Çaliskan and Kayla Preston, with Gary Kinsman, Ghaida Moussa, and Amar Wahab in Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender Postcolonial Perspectives Edited by Gul Caliskan, OUP Canada: 2020, https://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199030729.html
Read moreGary Kinsman and John Wilson in discussion at a Socialist Action forum following a showing of the “Fruit Machine” documentary.
Socialist Action asked me to speak as a discussant after their showing of Sarah Fodey’s documentary — “The Fruit Machine” — in October 2019 as part of their film series. Here is a video of
Read moreApril 2020 — Gary Kinsman, “Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories” in No Place for the State.
In April 2020 my chapter “Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories” will appear in: No Place for the State The Origins and Legacies
Read moreApril 2020 — Elise Thorburn and Gary Kinsman “Navigating Contemporary Struggles: Class Composition and Social Reproduction”
April 2020 — Elise Thorburn and Gary Kinsman “Navigating Contemporary Struggles: Class Composition and Social Reproduction” — this chapter addresses Autonomist Marxism, struggles over social reproduction and the centrality of Indigenous and anti-racist struggles in
Read moreAn Interview with Gary Kinsman, “Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform”
An Interview with Gary Kinsman, “Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform” Interview by Ryan Conrad in Upping the Anti Issue 21 In June 1969, amidst the rhetoric of the “Just Society,” the
Read moreGary Kinsman — Remember This: A brief statement on Memorializing Resistance to the Canadian War on Queers
As part of the settlement of the class action suit against the federal government, for the purge campaign against LGBT+ people from the public service and military, a fund for memorialization and for establishing a
Read moreSome Critical Reflections on Watching “Sex, Sin and 69” the new film from Sandbay and EGALE.
Some Reflections on Watching “Sex, Sin and 69” By Gary Kinsman “Sex Sin and 69” produced and directed by Sarah Fodey and Sandbay Entertainment, June 2019. If you have not seen this film yet there
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